“A novel about intergenerational trauma that is, more profoundly, a novel about intergenerational resilience: three generations of complex women who have known passion and determination and abuse, but who know, too, how to shelter one’s heart, how to tame tigers. Fanciful, wise, ambitious, Extinction is a remarkable debut.”
—Alice McDermott, winner of the National Book Award for Fiction
Extinction
a novel
October 6, 2026
Simon and Schuster, India
Preorder (South Asia): https://amzn.in/d/02jD51dp
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